At their very first meeting, she looked him straight in the eye-unflinching, unashamed-and asked, "ᴡɪʟʟ ʏᴏᴜ ꜱʟᴇᴇᴘ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴍᴇ?"
He didn't even blink. His answer came as naturally as breathing.
"ʏᴏᴜʀ ʀᴏᴏᴍ ᴏʀ ᴍɪɴᴇ?"
It should have ended there, a reckless proposition swallowed by the night. But it didn't. Because the question in her voice carried more than desire-it carried pain. And the steadiness in his reply hid more than charm-it hid a heart already caught.
That night, they didn't become lovers. That night, she walked away. But something had already shifted between them, something that refused to be undone.
What began as a failed one-night stand would unfold into a story of two souls colliding-his power, her secrets, their hunger, their hurt. A man who could have everything, except the one woman who slipped from his arms. A woman who asked for the simplest thing and revealed the deepest wound.
And yet, from the moment she said those words, and from the moment he answered, their fates were sealed.
Because sometimes, love doesn't begin with promises.
Sometimes, it begins with a question whispered in the dark.
ʙᴇᴄᴀᴜꜱᴇ ꜱᴏᴍᴇᴛɪᴍᴇꜱ, ʟᴏᴠᴇ ᴅᴏᴇꜱɴ'ᴛ ʙᴇɢɪɴ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴘʀᴏᴍɪꜱᴇꜱ.
ꜱᴏᴍᴇᴛɪᴍᴇꜱ, ɪᴛ ʙᴇɢɪɴꜱ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴀ Qᴜᴇꜱᴛɪᴏɴ ᴡʜɪꜱᴘᴇʀᴇᴅ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴀʀᴋ.
𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞-𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐬.
✦ The fire 🔥, the silence, the forbidde claim.
✦Because love is never simple-
✦It is obsession, betrayal, sanctuary... all at once.
༺ ★ ˚ ⋆ ˚ ❀ ˚ ⋆ ˚ ★ ༻
𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐚 : "Why can't you understand? This isn't about you. Not everything is about you!"
𝐀𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐯: "You breathe; I breathe. You bleed, I burn. Everything about you is mine. So yes, Jaan, it is about me. It will always be about me."
𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐚 : "You'll lose me, Atharv. If you touch Mayu, if you do anything. I swear you'll lose me."
𝐀𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐯: "You think a warning can push me back? Walk away, Jaan, and I'll trace every echo you leave behind. Disappear, and I'll pull apart every shadow you try to vanish into. Don't test me, Harshu... you marked me long before either of us had a name for it."
𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐚 : "You're delusional. Don't-"
𝐀𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐯: "Try me."
🔥 𝐓𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐬 🔥
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🧡 Not just a love triangle ✓
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